Director – Developer Platforms (DevX)

1 Month ago • 15 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

Zinnia is seeking a Director of Developer Platforms (DevX) to lead the company's DevX strategy and build best-in-class infrastructure, tooling, and practices to enhance developer productivity and software delivery. The role involves defining and executing the strategic roadmap, leading and scaling global teams across CI/CD, observability, and automation platforms. You will partner with engineering, product, and security teams to evolve platform standards, drive architectural excellence in internal developer systems, and champion engineering productivity initiatives. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with a proven track record in building or transforming DevX functions, excellent communication skills, and a data-oriented approach.
Must have:
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years leading infrastructure, platform, or DevX teams
  • Experience building or transforming DevX function
  • Managed managers and scaled distributed platform teams
  • Expertise in CI/CD, developer tooling, observability
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Data- and outcomes-oriented
Good to have:
  • Experience in modern cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise
  • Working knowledge of GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD
  • Familiarity with Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Chaos Mesh
  • Knowledge of OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, service mesh
Perks:
  • Excellent career progression
  • Competitive compensation
  • Health/dental insurance
  • Parental leave
  • Profit sharing
  • PF
  • Incentive/bonus opportunity
  • Tuition reimbursement

Job Details

WHO WE ARE:

Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

WHO YOU ARE:

You are a seasoned engineering leader with a proven track record of architecting, scaling, and leading world-class Developer Experience (DevX) and Developer Platform teams. You’ve successfully built internal platforms from the ground up or led transformations in complex, distributed organizations. You think strategically and act operationally — capable of setting a compelling vision while ensuring measurable delivery. You know how to balance developer empathy with technical excellence, and you lead with clarity, ownership, and influence. You’re passionate about driving innovation through enabling great engineering practices, and you know how to attract, mentor, and grow top-tier platform engineering talent.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

As Director of Developer Platforms, you will own Zinnia’s DevX strategy and lead a team of senior managers and managers in building best-in-class infrastructure, tooling, and practices that enhance developer productivity, platform resilience, and software delivery velocity.

  • Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Developer Experience and Internal Developer Platforms at Zinnia.
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a global team of managers, senior managers, and senior engineers across CI/CD, observability, dev environments, testing infrastructure, and automation platforms.
  • Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and SRE to design and evolve platform standards that scale with Zinnia’s rapid growth across regions and product lines.
  • Drive architectural and operational excellence in internal developer systems — including build/deploy pipelines, sandbox environments, telemetry, fault injection systems, and release engineering frameworks.
  • Ensure gold standards are codified into reusable tooling, opinionated golden paths, and secure-by-default frameworks.
  • Establish and track engineering-wide KPIs around build times, release cadence, platform availability, MTTR, and test coverage.
  • Champion engineering productivity initiatives — from friction audits to self-service tooling — that empower teams to ship faster and safer.
  • Lead Zinnia’s cultural transformation toward a developer-first engineering mindset with high standards in reliability, security, quality, and delivery.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

  • 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including 5+ years leading infrastructure, platform, or DevX teams at scale.
  • Prior success in building or transforming a DevX or Developer Platform function — ideally in a modern cloud-native, microservices-based enterprise.
  • Demonstrated experience managing managers and scaling globally distributed platform teams
  • Proven ability to deliver high-leverage outcomes through strategy, people, and architecture.
  • Deep expertise across modern CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, observability frameworks, and quality automation.
  • Strong working knowledge of tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Chaos Mesh, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and service mesh technologies.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills — comfortable aligning senior technical leaders, engineering teams, and business counterparts.
  • Data- and outcomes-oriented — able to define clear success metrics, drive adoption, and measure impact.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Zinnia offers excellent career progression and competitive compensation. We offer great benefits, including health/dental insurance, parental leave, profit sharing, PF, incentive/bonus opportunity, tuition reimbursement, and so much more. We’re looking for the best and brightest innovators in the industry to join our team. At Zinnia, you collaborate with smart, creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies, deeper data insights, and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at www.zinnia.com for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.

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About The Company

Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders.

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